Sophie Turner Gets New Game of Thrones Tattoo

Because if so…

Nowadays, it's pretty common for actors to commemorate wrapping a film or TV series by getting a tattoo inspired by their character or their time on set, and the Game of Thrones cast is no different.

Actors Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams already got matching tattoos back in 2016 in memory of the day they were cast as onscreen sisters, and Emilia Clarke recently shared her upcoming plans to get a dragon tattoo to celebrate her role as Daenerys Targaryen. But it's Sophie's newest piece of GoT–themed ink that has fans sounding the alarm and worrying that the 22-year-old may have accidentally spoiled the show's ending.

On June 9, Australian tattoo artist Lauren Winzer Instagrammed a photo of Sophie's forearm inked with a direwolf and the words, "The pack survives," written in typewriter-inspired font. "Thank you so much for getting this from me @sophiet ! bad ass !" Lauren captioned the post, tagging the actor in the pic.

Although Lauren posted the photo last Saturday, it wasn't until several days later that it caught the attention of GoT fans around the world, who began flooding the comments anxiously wondering whether the tattoo implies that the remaining members of the Stark family will survive season eight, which doesn't air until April 2019. (The family’s sigil is the direwolf, which live in packs.) "Is this a spoiler?" one Instagram user commented, as countless others echoed the question. "A Time for Wolves! The Starklings survive!" another wrote.

The conversation also took off on Twitter, where users further dissected the tattoo's meaning. One fan referenced a 2016 E! News interview, published shortly after Sophie and Maisie got their matching ink. "With Thrones, we were like, 'If we make it all the way through, hopefully we could all get a matching wolf, but we don't know if we're going to make it.' So Maisie and I were like, 'Let's get this before anyone kills us,'" she said at the time, leading the tweeter to believe that the new tat is the same matching wolf the pair have been dreaming of getting for years.

That said, as Elle points out, the words, "The pack survives," have been a reccurring message throughout the series's seven seasons. "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives," Sansa's father Ned Stark said in season one, and Sansa herself repeated the line in the seventh season. Though Sophie has revealed that she already knows Sansa's ultimate fate, HBO is extremely protective of GoT plot lines, so it seems unlikely that Sophie would be allowed to get the tattoo if it was a true spoiler. Either way, we'll have to wait until the eighth season premieres to learn who survives the titular game of thrones.